Alexander Wang for Parsons?

So....now I've pulled the Photoshop skills I learned in digital class and have started applying them to my Public Relations class! My final project in my elective is to come up with a 12-piece collection of Parsons logowear that is in collaboration with a successful Parsons alumni, as well as plan, market, and budget the launch party. I was given Alexander Wang, so my collection focused on soft tees, tanks, and loungewear.









I was able to flat my collection, then scan the flats into Photoshop and add color and my signature logo for the collaboration.






















Hopefully I can continue to add the digital effects into flats and specs for IS and other classes in the future!

Digital Collection Beginnings

In class we are learning to finally bring our hand-drawn flats from Integrated Studio into the computer to add color, prints, and specs. This adds a whole new dimension to the clothes we can design-- the addition of digital prints and colors gives a wider variety of choices at our fingertips that otherwise would be overlooked using goauche.



Starting with the basics, we've scanned and played with the thresholds of two tops, two bottoms, and a dress that we've designed. I used flats from my Salt collection in September.



We have to create two color palettes for our flats to include a large number of the prints we worked on last session. One palette of mine is based on New England sunsets, focusing on deep desaturated blues with shocking golds and reds.



The other color palette is inspired by a Technicolor Garden. There are pop-colored florals and prints along with sorbet hues.


Both palettes will be interesting to further develop for the final. Onto applying the prints to figures next!

Making the Stripe Shirt

For my Integrated Design class, I was assigned to design and sew a button-down shirt with stripes somehow incorporated into the design. The stripe part was assigned after the button-down shirt part unfortunately, so I had already planned out the perfect puff-sleeved blouse before realizing there was more to the assignment. Despairing re-sketching my idea with striped fabric, I realized as I drew that there were other ways to work the stripe into the project. It would require a lot of patience and exact measurements, but I could work a stripe into the actual pattern of the garment and eliminate the need for a stripe shirting fabric.

I cut a basic fitted shirt pattern from my slopers, then worked in a continuous stripe by slicing, building upon, and taping my pattern pieces. Many hours and yards of pattern paper later, I had my shirt pattern, consisting of 16 paper pieces and over twice that number in fabric pieces.


I purchased a nice khaki cotton weave, a tad sturdier than normal shirting but with a more interesting texture to its surface. For the stripe, I took a chance and used scraps of Zac Posen floral organza. The organza was difficult to cut, and only time will tell in terms of how it sews.


I hope to achieve a continuous stripe on my shirt, going from front to back around the sleeves. I want the stripe to look almost fluid, like in the designs of Miuccia Prada for both her Prada and Miu Miu lines.